Hayes Pipe Supply, Inc. v. McKendree Manor, Inc.

OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

Appellee sought to enforce a furnishers’ lien upon real property owned by appellant. Appellant had fully paid a contractor for the work performed upon its property, and the contractor had from time to time made payments to appellee, its supplier. Appel-lee had never credited any of these payments to the account which the contractor had established with it for this particular job. Instead all payments had by agreement between the contractor and appellee been credited to other accounts.

The Chancellor found that the allocation of payments had been made for the benefit of…